After decades of decline, average wind speeds are rising again. While scientists once blamed global stilling on land-based ...
Wind exerts significant influences on the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems 1, with some effects comparable in magnitude to those from changes in temperature and water availability 2 ...
Wind has long been regarded as an important ecological factor for forests due to the considerable damage it can inflict on forest canopies 1. In recent decades, wind speed over global land areas has ...
Tropical cyclone Ilsa has been downgraded to a category-three cyclone as it moves southeast through Western Australia. The storm first made landfall as a category-five cyclone, passing near Port ...
Tropical systems begin as tropical depressions, which are areas of low pressure with wind speeds of up to 38 miles per hour. When those winds strengthen and reach between 39 and 73 miles per hour, the ...